Affair of Mr. KORNMANN. "Letter to Milord*** about M. BERGAS - Lot 133

Affair of Mr. KORNMANN. "Letter to Milord*** about M. BERGASSE, and his observations in the affair of M. KORNMANN." August 26, 1788. "Letter from M. BERGASSE to the Queen (Marie-Antoinette), sending her a copy of his observations." 15 pages in-8°. (Guillaume KORNMANN was a French banker whose lawsuit against his wife, a wealthy young Swiss woman, supported by Beaumarchais, was particularly resounding in the 1780s. The latter had his adulterous wife, then pregnant by her lover, locked up).

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